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2 Sheets-Sheet 1. G. W. MOHRSTADT.

FASTBNER.

No. 327,009. Patented Sept. 29, 1885.

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G. W. MOHRSTADT.

PA'STENER.

No. 327,009. Patented Sept. 29, 1885.

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'NITED STATES PATENT Fries.

GUSTAVE \VILHELM MOHRSTADT, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 827,009, dated September 29, 1885.

Application filed June 23, 4.

IO companying drawings.

This invention consists of the arrangement of parts constituting a complete and effectual fastener, which can be used for fastening together stays, general wearing-apparel, baskets,

r 5 boxes, bridles, railway carriages or trucks,

coal-pit strips, or other articles and things. In carrying out my invention Iprovide a plate with a stud projecting therefrom. I also pro vide a plate in which is formed a key-holeshaped opening in its horizontal plane; also a securer, which is a piece of metal so shaped at one part as to form a securingbar. The said securing-bar is bent over at its extreme end to form atang or short projection. The

securer is bentat right angles in another part to form a lip with which to move it. The projecting stud on one plate being passed into the keyhole-shaped openingin the other plate, the securer is then placed in position, so that 0 the securing-bar covers the stud, the securer being held in position by a convenient shaped spring.

In some cases, instead of a plate with a stud on it, I provide or use any ordinary-shaped 5 chain-link, and instead of fastening the securer to a key-holeshaped plate, I fasten it to any ordinary or convenient shaped hook, my securer in both cases acting in a precisely similar mannernamely, to form a complete 0 and effectual fastener.

I will now proceed to describe. with reference to the accompanying drawings, the manner in which the fastener is made and used.

Figure 1 represents a pair of stay-busks, Fig. 2 represents a pair of stay-busks fastened or connected. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 show details of the plate, spring, and securer. Figs. 6 and 7 show the fastener made in a convenient form to be used 0 as a cloak-fastener, or for fastening straps,

an ordinary-shaped hook and link converted into a fastener by means of the securer.

A A show the improved fastener, one at each end of the busk. The securer is shown drawn back on plate A, so as to allow the stud to enter the key-hole-shaped opening. The securer is shown in the position at A that it occupies when covering the stud.

B and 1B show connecting-plates not provided with the improved fastener or securer.

Fig. 2 represents a pair of stay-busks with the plates A B B A passed over the studs 0 c c c. The securer is shown .at A Fig. 2, in such a position that the stud is unlocked ready to lift out of the keyhole-shaped opening. The securer is shown at A in a position that secures or looks the stud 0 The spring E, Fig. 4., continually bearing against the bottom end of securer, retains it in the position, as illustrated.

Fig. 3 represents the plate. F is the keyhole-shaped opening. G is the slot to receive the projection J on spring,. Fig. 4. H is a small recess to receive the tanged or turnedup portion of securing-bar (marked M.)

Fig. 4 represents two views of the spring E, J representing the projection provided to fit tightly in the slot G of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 represents the securer. Kisthepivothole, by means of which it is pivoted to the plate, Fig. 3, at K. L L is the projection or lip, by means of which the securer is worked on its pivot to fasten or unfasten the stud on section, as represented at 0, Fig. 8. M M is the tanged or turned-up portion of securingbar, made to fit in the recess H, Fig. 3, for the purpose of preventing the securer from going too far back when moved or uncovered from the stud. N N is the securing-bar that covers over the neck of the stud to lock or preventing it from getting out of the small part ofthe keyhole-shaped opening F in plate, Fig. 3.

Figs. 6 and 7 are views showing the fastener formed in and on leaf-shaped plates that would be suitable for fastening ladies capes, cloaks, or for fastening baskets, boxes, or other articles.

0, Fig. 6, represents a leaf-shaped plate, with a suitable stud fastened to and projecting from it.

P, Fig. 6, represents a leaf -shaped plate with a key-hole-shaped opening. A represents in dotted lines the spring, Fig. 4. A represents in dotted lines the securer, Fig. 5, in a position to allow the stud C to enter the slot F.

Fig. 7 represents the leaf-shaped plates P,

- connected and secured by means of the spring into G, Fig. 3.

'may be used without a spring. In either case B and the securer B.

Fig. 8 represents a section of the stay-busk at Q R, showing the shape of the stud C.

Fig. 9 represents the securer combined with a hook. The securer can be fastened to the hook in the manner illustrated. The hook can then be used for connecting railway or other carriages and trucks, or for winding up colliery-skips, or for any purpose where a securer stud or link.

The improved fastener is put together and used in the following manner: A plate having been provided, as represented at Fig. 3, or hook, as represented at Fig. 9, a securer, as represented at Fig. 5, would then be fixed to it by connecting the two parts with a rivet passing through K, Fig. 3, or K Fig. 9. A spring, as represented at Fig. 4, would then be firmly fixed to plate, Fig. 3, by passing J In some cases the fastener the fastener would be complete and ready for use. When using them as stay or corset fasteners, it would only be necessary to put one at the top of the busk and one at the bottom,

as 'represented'at A A, Fig 1. A suitable.

number of plates without my improvements could then be fastened to the busk, as shown at B and B. The half with the plates on it would then be passed or placed on the half containing the studs in the usual manner. The studs when entering the plates would press against the securers near the pivots, and thus draw them into the position covering the said studs, as represented at A, Fig. 1, and A Fig. 2. The securing-bars N N on the securers falling over, fitting on the necks of the studs, as represented at A Fig. 2, would be kept there bythe pressure of the springs bearing against the bottom of the securers, as represented, or in some cases I can use the securer without'the spring. In such cases the stud, when having a tendency to get out of the opening, would press against the concave part of the securing-bar and so prevent the securer from moving off the stud.

To disconnect the busk it would merely be necessary to move the securers at top and bottom of busk into the position shown at A,

; Fig. 1. By means of the lip or projection L L on securer, the spring would curve into the shape thereon represented. The cloak, basket, or box fasteners, represented at Figs. 6 and 7, are used in a similar manner-namely, by operating the securer on its-pivot, as hereinbefore described.

The railway-carriage, truck, or skip fast-' ener is provided with the securer exactly as represented in detail at Fig. 5, being used in 4 precisely the same way as when connected to .a stay-busk, Fig. 2, or cloak, basket, or box fastener, Fig. 7.

I am fully aware that there is nothing new in a key-hole-shaped plate working on a stud, as represented at B and 0, Fig. 2. Neither is there anything new or original in a link being connected to a hook as shown at Fig. 9. Butwhat I do consider new is the method of fastening or securing the stud in the key-holeshaped opening, or the link in or on the hook by means of the securer, Fig. 5. In either case the action of the securer and spring issimple, unique, and exceptionally perfect.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention, and in what manner the same is to .be performed, I declare that what I claim is- The spring-actuated securer in the shape of a lever, the said lever being provided with a securing-bar and working on a pivot, in combination with a plate in which is a key-holeshaped opening, and in combination with a stud, for the purpose of looking or fastening the said stud in the narrow end of key-holeshaped opening.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAVE WILHELM MOHRSTAD'I.

Witnesses:

ALF. WM. TURNER, JOHN WM. MAHONY. 

